On Jan 10, 2005, at 3:16 PM, Christopher Mahan wrote:
And with the Chinese flag, you mean Mandarin, Cantonese, or Shanghainese? (not the Taiwan one mind you)
And with the Indian Flag, you mean English?
I mean, the list goes on...
I am going to voice my support for the minimalist approach of giving the user a big obvious link to the wikipedia of their browser setting, and then a list of other languages, each language written in its own script. It is less pretty than the flags, but it follows the most important rule of interface design: the easiest choice should be the highest probability choice. In this case that is a link to the browser's default language being front and center with text something like "Continue on to the Wikipedia in [Blank]".